gabriel

1. Name:Brendon,Joseph ,
Gabriel

2. BB Citizenship
Topic:health
disease:malaria
organisation:WORLD HEALTH
ORGANIZATION[WHO]

3. What is malaria and what causes it?
Malaria is an intermittent and remittent fever caused by a
protozoan parasite which invades the red blood cells and is
transmitted by mosquitoes in many tropical and subtropical
regions.

4. WHO ARE AFFECTED?
Africa is the most affected due to a combination of factors:A
very efficient mosquito (Anopheles gambiae complex) is
responsible for high transmission. The predominant parasite
species is Plasmodium falciparum, which is the species that
is most likely to cause severe malaria and death.

5. HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE AFFECTED
Malaria kills one child every 30 seconds, about 3000 children
every day. Over 1 million die from malaria each year, mostly
children under five years of age, with 90 per cent of malaria
cases occurring in Sub-Saharan Africa. An estimated 300-
600 million people suffer from malaria each year